Throughout W.E.B Dubois’s legacy of writing (as the author of The Crisis) and being a black man in America trying to redefine what it means to be black and challenge stigmas. With the conception of The Crisis magazine, he sought to do just that by creating a piece of media that challenges the stereotypes, stigmas, and… Continue reading This Land Was Made For You and “Me”
The Crisis was a very educated magazine that was used as a recruiting tool for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This magazine has had an impact and was very popular and was mainly concentrated on African American history, politics, culture, social injustice, and their rights. The implications of “the New Negro… Continue reading Blog 1
The covers of The Crisis characterize the misconstrued thoughts, feelings, and way of life that black people experience in America. These covers are for the hopeful, defiant, and blueprints for the soon-to-be black nationalists. These covers suggest that the New Negro are viable beings. That the New… Continue reading Divine, Defiant, Delight
Creating the crisis magazine was a great trump card to help move the anti-black rhetoric that was being printed in pretty much every racist’s newspaper. There was a preference to have things move to the magazines instead of newspapers because of the tension between black and white publishers. Pg 71 talks about how racist white… Continue reading New Color~E
The Crisis took in many forms. It was known as quarterly magazine, which was published by NAACP. Other believed that The Crisis was W.E.B Dubois himself that captured his ideas and opinions. Despite what people may think, we can all agree that The Crisis captured the Black experience in America. Considering the Black experience a… Continue reading Blog 1 Draft
One of the main things that I notice when looking at the covers of Du Bois’ The Crisis magazine is the prevalence of profiles of people’s faces. Most of the subjects appear to be dressed very formally, either in business looking clothes or in uniform (several of the subjects appear to be in the military,… Continue reading Blog Post 1
Many people try to do things represent black culture in different ways especially in the 1900’s. Du Bois was one of those who represented black culture by putting certain things in the articles like New York Times or New York post etc to shed light on equal rights. As stated in the article “Founding the… Continue reading How Shedding Light On Black Culture Started
The lens from which we observe Crisis Magazine (founded by W.E.B Du Bois in 1910) should heavily consider audience. Because The Crisis is meant for both white and Black audiences, we should be thinking about what vision DuBois is laying out for white and Black people to see. When I scroll through, I see a… Continue reading Post #1 Crisis: Claiming Personhood
Looking through the covers of The Crisis it is clear that this publication was meant to do at least one thing. The first was reinvention. At the turn of the 20th century, Black Americans saw themselves longing to create a new public image that decentered the stereotypes of the “Sambo” or the “Zip Coon”. Both… Continue reading Blog Post #1 Draft
Although W.E.B. DuBois is known for his involvement with the NAACP and his periodical, The Crisis, along with being a big player in reconstructing the black visual image, he much preferred book publications rather than magazines. He claimed that our country was “magazine mad,” and that magazines/newspapers were a “festering abomination, hodgepodge of lie, gossip,… Continue reading blog post #1 – Why was The Crisis made into a magazine when DuBois [and others] disliked magazines?
